The Bering Strait is a narrow, international strait that separates Chukotka in Russia’s Far East from Alaska, the only chokepoint between North America and the Arctic Ocean. It is a shallow waterway on the continental shelf with water depths averaging 100 to 160 feet and is seasonally ice-covered with an open water navigation season from May–June to October–November.

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